Evidence+Questions+for+Older+Students


 * 1) Is the evidence about the slave trade in this source likely to be true?
 * 2) What sources might we use to give insight into this deserted medieval town?
 * 3) What is suggested in this Parliamentary Report about events/author/audience?
 * 4) What are the advantages/disadvantages in using parish registers to tell us about death rates?
 * 5) Why might the Bayeux Tapestry have been compiled?
 * 6) How reliable do you think the author is even though he was an eye witness?
 * 7) What seems to be the writer's viewpoint in this newspaper account?
 * 8) What questions would you like answered before you would be happy that this letter gves a fair picture of the Civil War in Eastern Kent?
 * 9) Compile a diagram to show the main arguments being used in this oral account of why evacuation was not always successful?
 * 10) Do you think the authors of this survey have any reason for distorting the truth ? If so, why?
 * 11) What seems to be the author's purpose in compiling this film?
 * 12) What information may have been available to the author when she compiled this register?
 * 13) In what ways is the style of writing in this 19th century report exaggerated?
 * 14) Use the evidence of these five sources to narrate the main events in the execution of Charles I.
 * 15) In what parts of this election address is the author appealing to the emotions of the audience?
 * 16) Which parts of the source seem to be intended to turn readers against the Irish?
 * 17) Explain why the government might have produced this poster the way they did?
 * 18) What significant omissions do there seem to be in this account of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand?

as a problem? textbook regarding the Battle of Seven Oaks.
 * 1) What seems to be the government's purpose in developing this poster during the Sifton Immigration era?
 * 2) How does this news report support the Prime Minister's decision to invoke the War Measures Act?
 * 3) What questions would you like answered before you would agree with Johnston's assessment of Louis Riel
 * 1) Compare the author's purpose from both the account from the Winnipeg Free Press to that presented in the
 * 1) What does Mr. Lane's account tell us about social hierarchy at Lower Fort Garry in 1850?
 * 2) How can we relate Mr. Lane's experiences to a 25 year old male today.

Agenda for April 25

Agenda for May 5